Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds. — Paul Watson
I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me… — John Green
I know what the caged bird feels, alas! — Paul Laurence Dunbar
How did writing come to me? Like bird’s down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a struggle of firebrands,… — Rene Char
Don't evaluate your life in terms of achievements, trivial or monumental, along the way... Instead, wake up and appreciate everything you encounter along your path.… — Wayne Dyer
He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds. — Henry David Thoreau
There are women who fly their falcons at any game, little birds and all. — George MacDonald
Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person. — Nhat Hanh
Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination… — George Eliot
He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he… — John of the Cross
Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy. — Isaac Asimov
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. — Jacques Deval
The four catagories of existance, non-existance, both existance and non-existance, and neither existance nor non-existance, are spiderwebs among spiderwebs which can never take hold of… — Gautama Buddha
At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the untethered balloon,… — Robert Grudin
To all earth's creatures God has given the broad earth, the springs, the rivers and the forests, giving the air to the birds, and the… — Gregory of Nazianzus
He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release - the way of… — Gautama Buddha
My grandfather was a giant of a man ... When he walked, the earth shook. When he laughed, the birds fell out of the trees.… — Unknown Author
The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain… — Li Bai
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred… — Plato
I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen our hearts… — Dawna Markova
Like a flying bird you came into my life. Your love was the strength that let me take the plunge. I didn't think that I… — Kimberly Johnson
I feel like tiny bird with a big song! — Jerry Van Amerongen
What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and… — Unknown Author
You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest. — Cynthia Lewis
Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure — Simon Barnes

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